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Critical Consensus

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starstarstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstarstar Kenneth Turan - LA Times
starstarstarstar Jay Carr - Boston Globe
starstarstarstar Wesley Morris - SF Examiner
starstarstarstar Owen Gleiberman - EW
starstarstarstar Mike Clark - USA Today
starstarstarstar Mark Caro - Chicago Tribune
starstarstarstar Louis B. Parks - Houston Chronicle
starstarstarstar Jonathan Foreman - NY Post
starstarstarstar Janet Maslin - NY Times
starstarstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstarstar Gemma Files - Film.com
starstarstarstar Emanuel Levy - Variety
starstarstarstar Desson Howe - Washington Post
starstarstar Rob Blackwelder - SPLICED Online

A great film . . . a worthy companion to those other masterpieces of death on the prairie, Badlands and  In Cold Blood”

- Roger Ebert

When you hate everyone on screen with the exception of the hero, it’s a little hard to sit still for 116 minutes

- Rob Blackwelder

Boys Don’t Cry

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Based on a true story of a Nebraska girl who pretended to be a boy and was raped and killed by her girlfriend's friends when they discovered her real identity. Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Brendan Sexton III, Alison Folland, Alicia Goranson, Matt McGrath. Director: Kimberly Peirce (1999, R)

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